Boystown: How Chicago Got Its Gay Neighborhood

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Political activism and businesses helped shape the city's gay neighborhood, but there's a debate about its future.

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0:39.2	If you go to Boys Town on a Friday night, you're going to run into a lot of people who are very happy to be there.
0:45.4	But it's great. I love having like a gay area, which is so big.
0:50.8	Traveling to L.A., traveling to New York, there's no other place that has a strip of bars, per se, that's like Boystown.
0:57.7	I love Wai'sown.
0:58.5	Oh, my God, we love it.
0:59.3	You're like the mayors of Wastown.
1:00.8	I'm the queen.
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